Gearing.



PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908.

L GATELL GEARING. APPLIOA TION FILED MAR. 29; 1907.

W/T/VEIS' UNITED STATES PATENT onnion LUCIE-N OATEL; OFv LYON, FRANCE.

GEARING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent ed {Ia-11.21, 1908.

Application filed March 29. 1907. Serial No- 365.276,

To all-whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUCIEN CATEL, a citi zen of the French Republic, residing at Lyon, France, have invented a certain new and usefulGearing, of which the following is a specification.

. This invention relates to driving or transmissiongearin @which enables driven 'members} to be-rotated through "angles relatively to fixed shafts. This result is obtained by Pherical gearing, and allows, for extransmitting power to the steering he gearing can also be ;s O 'wheelsof avehicle.

- .use'd in'jconnection with other mechanism,

for exam 1e for driving the propellers of ships or yin g)-machines, to enable-the said propellers to e used for steering.

A constructionembodying the invention 1 as applied to driving the front-wheels of a motor-car is-illustrate d' in the annexed draw-l ingg in which. 3

gure 1 isa Ian-view of the mechanism,

.Fi 2 a vertica cross-section of the frontax e on alar er scale, and Fig, 3 a vertical section in a p ane parallel with the said axle.

The axle of the steering wheels b comprises a stationary part a and two movable parts a, the latter being pivotally'connected to the former bymeans of a fixed vertical.

pivot d, which engages the part a. The two pivots d have armsf which are connected to each other bv a rod 0, so that-neitherwheel b'can' be deflected without moving the other wheel in correspondence therewit To each wheel I) is fixed a spherical, earwheel. g co-axi-al therewith and mes ing with a pinion h.

I g and h mustbe in the same horizontal plane.

The shape of the gea'rwheels 9 enables them to be rotated about vertical axes without disengaging them from thepinions h.- To the motor-shafts 'i are fixed rollers Theaxes of rotation of the two gear wheels The relative sizes of the sprocket-wheels,

chosen that the front and rear-wheels are driven at the same speed The shafts m and 1' may balance gearing sand t. 4

' modified in various ways. For example, the pinions It may be placed infront of the spherical gear-wheels, or each of thelatter maybe driven by means of two pinions, one placed in front and the other behind but the must'b'e in the same horizontal plane.

What I claim as my invention-and desire States is: a r The combination of a stationary shaft, an oscillatory shaft connected to each-:end

shaft, anar-i'n connected to each oscillatory with each wheel. I I

In witness whereof I have signed this specification in the presenc'e'bf twowi-tne's'ses.

. v LUGIEN, (IA-TEL. :Witn'essest a GASTON JEAU-NIAUX,

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in the same direction as the rear-wheels.

pinions" and spherical gear wheels are so be provided with to secure by Letters Batent of' the United thereof and forming a continuation 'of the Details of construction can. ofcourse be axes of the pinions and spherica 1 wheels shaft, 'a ro'd connecting the arms together, a I globular toothed 'wheelon each oscillatory shaft, and a pinion on a fixed axis meshing p 

